A similar problem to the Dark Souls multiplayer servers exists on the Grand Theft Auto Online servers. As it took FromSoftware’s games more than half a year to fix the bug, the situation will not be easy…

Rockstar insider Tez2 has published evidence of a vulnerability in Grand Theft Auto Online (from now on, just GTAO). Several players have reported that their account progress has been reversed or they have been kicked out of games. They can’t even join them on PC. A featured post on the GTAO subreddit addresses the issue. Speyedr (who created the Grand Theft Auto V firewall tool, Guardian) points out that hackers are close to being able to perform RCE through GTAO. In other words: they could run code on your PC remotely so that you could be infected with malware.

According to Tez2, Rockstar is aware of the issue and is working on a solution. A modder can take another user’s rank and in-game money and roll back the victim’s progress to zero or corrupt the other account to the point where it would essentially mean being banned from the game. Here, we can see that after disabling Guardian, the person was kicked out of their GTAO session, and here we can see that the connection to GTAO failed, as the camera just zooms in and stays there, as this account was also “corrupted” by the attack.

According to Tez2, if you delete the Rockstar Games subfolder from your Documents folder, your profile data will be updated when you launch GTAO. Still, no official response from Rockstar is anywhere yet. The Guardian may protect us from attacks, but Speyedr doesn’t want players unfamiliar with the program to take any chances, so he’s taken it down from GitHub with the advice that until Rockstar fixes the vulnerability, stay away from GTAO.

Now the question is, how long will it take Rockstar to fix the bug?

Source: PCGamer